CFP: William Blake and Authority (3/16/07; MLA '07)

Now Accepting submissions for a Special Session on ?William Blake andAuthority? for the Modern Language Association?s (MLA) convention inChicago, December 2007.

Seeking submissions for a proposed panel on the topic of William Blakeand how he and his work engages with and/or confronts authority.?Authority? can be interpreted in a variety of ways:

-Blake?s authority as an author/artist or his place in the canon-Blake?s confrontation with institutional authority (i.e. Church and State)-Blake?s resistance to the authority of Enlightenment principles andthe hegemony of reason-Depictions of authority in Blake?s texts-The authority of the word vs. the authority of the image-Examinations of the ways that Blake conceptualizes authority-Blake?s reaction to?and criticism of?colonial authority

These are just a few ideas on how this topic may be approached, butthe possibilities are, well, infinite! I am especially interested increative and new approaches to Blake and his work.